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AI disclosure: This post and its accompanying PowerShell script were written with assistance from AI.

Valve’s new 2026 Steam Machine has created a lot of discussion online given it’s pricing.

SpecCat.com is a web site I’ve made, mainly for myself trying out LLMs, for easily comparing detailed specifications of different silicon chips; CPUs, APUS, GPUs etc. as shown in screenshots of header below and full at bottom.

Sep 0.12.0 was released November 12th, 2025 with a minor update to target net10.0 and use the newly available VectorXY.NarrowWithSaturation.

Above png is very high resolution, but you can also download a pdf.

Sep 0.11.0 was released June 12th, 2025 with a new parser optimized specifically for ARM NEON SIMD (called AdvSimd in .NET) capable ARM64 CPUs like the Apple M1) or the new Microsoft cloud Cobalt 100, which is based on the ARM Neoverse N2.

Working with files and directories on Windows, especially on network shares, often leads to issues with long paths.

This quick blog post demonstrates how to automate the backup of all packages from all organization feeds on Azure DevOps using a scheduled pipeline and a PowerShell script.

Sep 0.10.0 was released April 22nd, 2025 with optimizations for AVX-512 capable CPUs like the AMD 9950X (Zen 5) and updated benchmarks including the 9950X.

Sep 0.9.0 was released February 1st, 2025 - earlier this year - with a major new feature: Async support for both SepReader and SepWriter.